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Elvis Presley - 39 Albums + 3 EPs & Singles + 4 Singles |
![]() About Elvis Presley In 1992, the U.S. Postal Service conducted a nationwide vote on a crucial subject: Should their upcoming stamp feature Young Elvis or Older Elvis? More than 75 percent of the million-plus ballots voted for Young Elvis, but the fact that the question was asked at all speaks to the difficulty of pinning down just who the man was and how he should be remembered: Boundary-breaking R&B singer or Hollywood crooner? Rock pioneer or Vegas showman? An artist who legitimized blues for white audiences or appropriated it from black performers? In truth, Elvis Presley was all these things and more, a prism through which just about every myth we have about race, pop culture, and the American dream can be refracted. Born in 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, in a two-room shotgun house built by his father, Presley moved to Memphis as a teenager, recording his first sides for Sun Records a couple of months after he finished high school. He liked country, but also blues; he liked ballads, but played with an irrepressible energy that helped shape the feel of rock and roll. (His breakthrough, an uptempo cover of the blues singer Arthur Crudup’s “That’s All Right,” reportedly started as a goof Presley was killing time with between takes of something more subdued.) In addition to becoming one of the first artists to successfully make R&B for white audiences, Presley was also one of the first performers whose fame (good and bad) came in large part from television—you can’t see hips move in the newspaper. (The New York Times, reporting on Presley’s Milton Berle Show performance in June 1956: “His one specialty is an accented movement of the body that heretofore has been primarily identified with the repertoire of the blonde bombshells of the burlesque runway.”) Presley parlayed his screen appeal into a successful movie career, spending most of the '60s in Hollywood. (A handful of his most indelible songs—including “Can’t Help Falling in Love” and “Return to Sender”—started life on soundtracks to movies in which he also starred.) In 1968, he ventured to recapture the jolt of his early years, staging a television special (Elvis, a.k.a. the ’68 Comeback Special) that constituted his first live performance since 1961. The following year, he released From Elvis in Memphis, an album that found him suddenly, effortlessly, in step with contemporary pop and soul. Though Presley toured almost relentlessly until his death from a heart attack in 1977, he became increasingly cloistered, at one point giving up recording studios in favor of using a mobile studio RCA Records sent to his Memphis mansion, Graceland. A car aficionado with no shortage of spending money, he was known to occasionally approach strangers outside Cadillac showrooms and ask which model and color they liked best before offering—out of the blue—to pick up the bill. Nearly 80,000 people were estimated to have attended the procession for his funeral, where he was buried next to his mother. Albums list: Elvis Presley - 100 Elvis Presley's Masterpieces (Remastered Version) Elvis Presley - 2nd to None Elvis Presley - A Boy from Tupelo The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings Elvis Presley - Almost In Love (Mastered) Elvis Presley - Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite (Deluxe Edition) (Mastered) Elvis Presley - Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite (Legacy Edition) Elvis Presley - Blue Hawaii (Original Soundtrack) (Mastered) Elvis Presley - Christmas Duets Elvis Presley - Close Up Elvis Presley - Elvis 30 #1 Hits Elvis Presley - Elvis Live In Las Vegas Elvis Presley - Elvis 30 #1 Hits (Expanded Edition) Elvis Presley - Elvis At the Movies (Remastered) Elvis Presley - Elvis Back in Nashville (Mastered) Elvis Presley - Elvis Country (Mastered) Elvis Presley - Elvis Live Elvis Presley - Elvis Movies (Remastered) Elvis Presley - Elvis On Tour (Mastered) Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) Elvis Presley - Elvis for Everyone! (Mastered) Elvis Presley - Elvis' Christmas Album (Mastered) Elvis Presley - From Nashville to Memphis - The Essential 60s Masters Elvis Presley - Gold (The Classics) Elvis Presley - Hitstory Elvis Presley - King Creole (Original Soundtrack) (Mastered) Elvis Presley - Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis (Legacy Edition) (Mastered) Elvis Presley - Silent Night (Elvis Presley's Christmas Songs) Elvis Presley - That's the Way It Is (Legacy Edition) Elvis Presley - The 50 Greatest Love Songs Elvis Presley - The Best of The '68 Comeback Special Elvis Presley - The Essential Elvis Presley Elvis Presley - The Essential Elvis Presley (UK Version) (Mastered) Elvis Presley - The King of Rock 'N' Roll The Complete 50's Masters Elvis Presley - The U.k Sun Sessions Elvis Presley - Today (Legacy Edition) (Mastered) Elvis Presley - Viva Elvis Elvis Presley - Viva Elvis (iTunes + LP) Elvis Presley - Walk a Mile In My Shoes The Essential '70s Masters EPs & Singles list: Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream - EP Elvis Presley, John Lee Hooker & Muddy Waters - Blue Notes – A Blues Survey from 1920-1960, vol. 3 - EP Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation Elvis vs JXL - Single Singles list: Elvis Presley & Britney Spears - Toxic Las Vegas (Jamieson Shaw Remix (From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ELVIS) DELUXE EDITION) - Single Elvis Presley & Kane Brown - Blue Christmas - Single (Mastered) Elvis Presley - Do the Vega (Dillon Francis Remix) - Single Elvis Presley - I Love You Because (with Lisa Marie Presley) - Single https://music.apple.com/us/artist/elvis-presley/197443
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